Texas Blues Icon Johnny Winter Dead at 70 (7/17/2014) Texas blues legend Johnny Winter died Wednesday, July 16. He was 70.
This morning, the guitarist's Facebook page offered the following news item, which also was released by his publicist overnight:
"Texas blues icon Johnny Winter has passed away...

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